Life in life

A video of Conway's Game of Life, emulated in Conway's Game of Life.

The Life pattern is the OTCA Metapixel: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_m... - for more information, see http://otcametapixel.blogspot.com.au/

The life simulator used is Golly - http://golly.sourceforge.net/ which has a built-in script to generate these metapixel grids (select a pattern, and choose "metafier.py" from the scripts list).

Inspired by this video:    • Droste effect in Conway's Life   but with the speed and scale varying smoothly over time, rather than in discrete jumps as the original video did.

The actual video is exported from Golly using a custom Python script: https://github.com/mrphlip/life3/tree... (since Golly built-in only supports rendering the view with a scale which is a power of 2, for performance reasons - this is not a particularly well-optimised or fast script to run).

The audio track used to be a Shepard Tone, but that was horrible, so I replaced it with some of the music in YouTube's library (Jingle Punks - Back of the Room Hang)... if you really want to hear the original version, it is over here:    • Life in life (original audio)